arXiv:2502.08003cs.LG2025-02被引 3

针对分群结构下的异构多智能体强化学习,提出高效协同算法。

Heterogeneous Multi-agent Multi-armed Bandits on Stochastic Block Models

  • 基于随机块模型建模智能体分群与奖励差异,统一异构与同质场景。
  • 在未知分群时仍可实现对数级累积损失,优于已有方法的常数阶上界。
  • 适用于大规模系统,对边概率假设更宽松,适合实际网络部署。

我们研究一种新型异构多智能体多臂老虎机问题,其集群结构由随机块模型诱导,不仅影响图拓扑,也决定奖励异质性。智能体分布在基于随机块模型的随机图上——这是具有异质边概率的广义埃拉托斯特尼随机图模型:智能体被划分为若干簇(已知或未知);同一簇内与跨簇间的边概率不同。此外,随机块模型中的簇结构也决定了奖励的异质性:同一臂在不同簇中具有不同的奖励分布,但同一簇内保持一致,从而统一了同质与异质设置,并可调节异质程度。奖励独立地从这些分布中采样。目标是最小化所有智能体的系统总遗憾。为此,我们提出一种适用于已知和未知簇设置的新算法。该算法结合基于平均的一致性方法与新提出的信 息聚合加权技术,形成一种UCB型策略。它考虑了图的随机性,同时利用来自奖励和图的簇内(同质)与簇间(异质)信息,并在未知簇设置下集成簇检测机制。我们推导出在亚高斯奖励下的最优实例依赖性遗憾上界,为$\log{T}$阶。重要的是,我们的遗憾上界捕捉了系统的异质性程度(额外复杂性),常数更小,大系统下表现更优,且对边概率的假设显著放宽。相比之下,先前工作未考虑此精细问题复杂度,依赖更严格假设,且可扩展性有限。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We study a novel heterogeneous multi-agent multi-armed bandit problem with a cluster structure induced by stochastic block models, influencing not only graph topology, but also reward heterogeneity. Specifically, agents are distributed on random graphs based on stochastic block models - a generalized Erdos-Renyi model with heterogeneous edge probabilities: agents are grouped into clusters (known or unknown); edge probabilities for agents within the same cluster differ from those across clusters. In addition, the cluster structure in stochastic block model also determines our heterogeneous rewards. Rewards distributions of the same arm vary across agents in different clusters but remain consistent within a cluster, unifying homogeneous and heterogeneous settings and varying degree of heterogeneity, and rewards are independent samples from these distributions. The objective is to minimize system-wide regret across all agents. To address this, we propose a novel algorithm applicable to both known and unknown cluster settings. The algorithm combines an averaging-based consensus approach with a newly introduced information aggregation and weighting technique, resulting in a UCB-type strategy. It accounts for graph randomness, leverages both intra-cluster (homogeneous) and inter-cluster (heterogeneous) information from rewards and graphs, and incorporates cluster detection for unknown cluster settings. We derive optimal instance-dependent regret upper bounds of order $\log{T}$ under sub-Gaussian rewards. Importantly, our regret bounds capture the degree of heterogeneity in the system (an additional layer of complexity), exhibit smaller constants, scale better for large systems, and impose significantly relaxed assumptions on edge probabilities. In contrast, prior works have not accounted for this refined problem complexity, rely on more stringent assumptions, and exhibit limited scalability.

多智能体强化学习随机图异质性

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